December 11, 2013

Guys, look, it's coming along! Here's the current state of our parlor.

The rug I've been waiting ages for finally came. I love it. It's the Momeni Delhi DL-51 Navy rug. I ordered it from Rug Super Center since they provide a free rug pad with your order (the pad is still in transit, so I'm not sure what kind it is.) We'll move the rug closer to the window so it's more centered in the room after the Christmas tree is gone.

We're still waiting for a non-broken chandelier to arrive; that will be in January. We also want to ditch the bathroom floor tile covering this non-working fireplace and probably paint the brick to hide some ugliness. Alex got out the roasting rack from his grill and put a couple logs in it, just to help the situation a little. We bought that firewood bundle circa 2004 for a campfire in Chicago that never happened. And then we moved it to Cincinnati this summer. Finally it has a purpose in life.

I guess interior designers would put lots of stuff on the mantle and style up the coffee table with deer antlers and art books that no one reads. I'll work on that.

In the meantime, I cashed in some Groupon credit and got this lovely watercolor print for free from art.com. Central Park West, 2011 by Peter Graham.

And I made a deal with Ms. Dana Gibson to get a discount on her awesome painted leopard pillows. They make me smile internally when I look at them. I was fixated on this funny tiger rug awhile ago with nowhere to put it, so now I have achieved my dream of owning flattened animals. (I don't count paper bookmarks. The comments on that post are hilarious, by the way.) Side note! Dana's great grandpa was the artist behind the Gibson Girl.

Literally you created this! It takes a lot of skills to stay in a orange room and not to run away and create a gorgeous place! Coffee book that noone reads lol that's true! i had one too, norwegian kitchen in norwegian)) yeah we cant read even if we want<3

Love it! Truly impressed with how you layered so many bold patterns & colors....and make it all look so fun & inviting & beautiful. I remember when you showed us each separate piece (the chairs, the sofa, the rug, the lamps, curtains, etc) I was wondering how it would all go together, but seeing them together in the room -- WOW! I need to learn from you. Right now, our living room looks blah.

Good thought! We're still trying to figure out if we want to have actual fire in that fireplace and what our options are for gas inserts and the like. How it needs to function might determine what we can do to it.